1
Lectors shall read clearly, understand what they read to the extent required by office, and avoid turning the reading into performance detached from instruction.
2
Singers shall serve order in worship; doorkeepers shall preserve peace without humiliating the poor or favoring the wealthy.
3
Subdeacons and assistants shall perform the tasks entrusted to them and not invent sacramental powers merely from proximity to the altar.
4
Deaconesses may serve women in those ministries in which modesty and practical assistance require women to serve women, according to the received order.
5
Appointment to these offices requires tested conduct. Removal requires cause rather than personal dislike.
6
Distinction of office is distinction of function, not a declaration that one person possesses greater human worth.